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meanless

meanless adjective: meaningless, lacking meaning.

Adjective

meanless (comparative more meanless, superlative most meanless)

  1. (archaic) Meaningless, lacking meaning.
    • The window here, and there the door annoys, Then frequent repetitions tire the ear Of meanless speeches, dull and insincere.1815, Charlotte Nooth, A dish of tea!
    • Harp continued to find receivers open and the Eagles added several meanless touchdowns in the last half of the game.2007 October 23, Marvin Hogan, “Eagles soar past Leopards”, in Gainesville Daily Register
  2. (error-lua-exec, not comparable) Having no (mathematical) mean, or having a mean of zero.
    • Another unfailing “mean” to characterize such meanless distributions is the logarithmic mean […]1994, M.R. Schroeder, “How to generate Thermal Photons - On the Computer”, in Gérard G. Emch et al., editors, On Klauder’s Path: A Field Trip, World Scientific Publishing Co., →ISBN, page 199
    • In particular: i) the average is used to get a meanless dataset, as specified in sect. 20; […]2004, La Rivista del Nuovo cimento, Società italiana di fisica, page 35

Forms of meanless

comparativemore meanless
superlativemost meanless

Origin of meanless

From mean + -less.

Words formed from meanless

Questions about meanless

What does meanless mean?
Meanless means meaningless, lacking meaning.
What part of speech is meanless?
Meanless is an adjective.

Words near meanless in the dictionary

  1. meaningly
  2. meaningness
  3. meanings
  4. meanish
  5. Meanjin
  6. meanless
  7. meanlessness
  8. Meanley
  9. Meanleys
  10. meanlier
  11. meanliest

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